📖 Proverbs 2
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Benefits of Seeking Wisdom My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself,
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by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,
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indeed, if you call out for discernment– shout loudly for understanding–
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if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
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then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
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For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
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He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,
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to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity– every good way.
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For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
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Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
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to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
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who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
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who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
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whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
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to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;
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who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.
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For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.
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None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
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So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
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but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.